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Matt Peterson

Fellow, Yale University

Public Ethics Media

matt.peterson@yale.edu

Matt Peterson is a post-graduate fellow in the Global Justice Program at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. His work focuses on contributions that global, political, and economic structures make to human rights violations.

Peterson is an active member of the Health Impact Fund project, which aims to improve access to medicines among the world's poor. He is also the producer of Public Ethics Radio, a podcast that engages ethicists in discussion of pressing political dilemmas. 

Peterson was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne Philosophy Department in 2008, and has worked previously at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Carnegie Council. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and International Relations from Tufts University and an M.S. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He lives in New York City.

Focus: Ethics, Human Rights, Security, Australia, United States, Americas, Asia

Related Resources:

• Clean Tech Intellectual Property (Audio)
• Indigenous Intellectual Property (Audio)
• Ownership and the Body (Audio)
• The Arbitrary Morality of Immigration and Citizenship (Audio)
• Institutionalizing Human Rights (Audio)
• The Bioethics of Infectious Diseases (Audio)
• American Sugar Policy Leaves a Sour Taste (Commentary)
• The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run (Commentary)
• Network Power (Audio)
• Shallow Cuts (Commentary)
• Proportionality in Gaza (Audio)
• Discretionary Time (Audio)
• Extending Human Lifespans (Audio)
• Shaking the Resource Curse (Audio)
• Pharmaceutical Innovation and Essential Medicines (Audio)

Last Updated: Apr 24, 2009